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Didn't we have a dude essentially terminate his PS contract - Tavon Austin? Yep https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/former-browns-de-isaac-rochell-heading-to-new-team/ar-AA15KM8Z Sounds as though the Browns may not have wanted to release him, but he wanted to move on, so..... Anyway, there was some talk around the Beasley signing that a team can not claim a player from another team's PS to theirs I pointed out that it happens, and the way it happens is that the player asks the team to release him (or terminates his contract) and then signs a new contract.

I think a lot of QBs these days have a personal QB coach. The main thing is working it out with the team what the R&R will be and ensuring that the personal QB coach isn't speaking against what the team QB coach is coaching, especially during the season. For that reason, I don't think most QB have a personal QB coach in the facility. A lot of players have a nutritionist/personal chef/personal trainers/massage therapist. They usually are off-season or, outside the facility, and don't typically cause confliction. Josh has mentioned on the Kyle Allen show having a massage on Tues at his house before the show. Diggs and Davis use Darian Bryan. Not sure what Allen does. Of course, the team will work out a training and nutrition plan for every player, so again, issues would arise if the personal trainer/nutritionist and the team goals promoted by the team nutritionist/trainers differ. I don't know why they need to be in the facility - again, unless they just aren't on the same page with the goals the team works out for the player. I think a lot of players also have a social media/personal brand or marketing/pr rep. Sometimes this is a service provided by the player's agent, sometimes it's a separate agency. Feliciano used Frances Reimers (Firestarter). It makes sense to 1) hand over social media to a pro and not get into back-and-forth with fans on it 2) have someone out there looking for marketing and PR opportunities (or fielding/triaging them). Again, it really shouldn't need to come into the facility during the season. A competent rep should be able to manage opportunities according to parameters worked out with the player, and maybe come to them an hour a week during the season, on the player's day off, with a "yes/maybe/no" pile for review. The decision a young player like Josh needs to make, as success comes to him, is, "what are his priorities?" Does he want to let endorsement deals and appearances and advertising spots encroach on his prep and training time during the season, or his down-time and rehab/training during the off-season? Or does he want to set strict limits and make prep and training his first priority, then personal life/down time his second priority, and ring-fence a smaller amount of time for marketing? I think the paradox faced by Russ Wilson was that he was still a young guy on his first contract as a 3rd round pick, when he won his Superbowl and then went back (and lost) the following season. So he was earning very little from the Seahawks with little guaranteed - I think I remember $700k salary. His agents and marketing people would likely advise him "get your bag while you can" because anything can happen - injury, rest of the team falls off - and there's no guarantee he'll be able to get that lucrative 2nd contract OR be as marketable then as he was at the time. Now Josh has already been Paid, big time. So he can look at marketing deals with a more discerning eye, and more easily set limits on how much of his time they eat up in season and out (and I hope he does). When you're earning $20M or $40M or $50M a year, it's easier to say "I'd rather be playing golf" or "I'd rather be tuning up my throwing mechanics" when offered a bunch of endorsement deals, than it is when you're earning $700k. Anyway, I don't think the entourage is that unusual. What's unusual is: 1) having the personal QB coach in the facility 2) having the social media assistants and anyone else (chef/trainer) in the facility 3) having his own office in the facility - Cousins does, not sure who else.

Turner did a bunch of run breakdowns this week Bunch of defensive breakdowns too If anyone is interested

FWIW Erik Turner did a bunch of run stuff from the Bears game

You're not gonna get an update. They're on IR, that's your update

Well, yes, Boettger is a vet. But you get a feel for how teams expect a guy to perform and how much slack they'll give him, according to what he's being paid. Saffold close to $6M (split over 2 years but it's really a 1 year contract) Boettger vet minimum, $1.2M In the case of OLmen, every OL coach seems to bring "his guy" to help be his player coach and teach his technique and schemes. Bobby Johnson brought Jon Feliciano. Juan Castillo brought *gulp* Vlad Ducasse. Saffold is Kromer's "guy" It's not that "his guy" won't get benched - essentially Ike Boettger kept Jon Feliciano on the bench last season and eventually Wyatt Teller benched Vlad Ducasse - but it takes Some Doing.

“look at me” announcement?

Why announce it now? Why not just play out the season then announce?

Good taste in friends! Keep her!

Here's another one. I'm not crying, you're crying! https://buffalonews.com/news/local/in-the-middle-of-a-blizzard-with-help-from-one-dad-to-be-two-doulas/article_0377b3b8-8527-11ed-95ca-772f97130007.html#tracking-source=article-related-bottom

So the driving ban is now a "travel advisory" in most of Erie County https://buffalonews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/cheektowaga-travel-ban-lifted-nonessential-driving-still-banned-in-buffalo-lackawanna/article_da6253e6-82b7-11ed-82d3-1bc0156c8602.html Non-essential driving is still banned in Buffalo and Lackawanna, so there might be some impacts to players who live in downtown Buffalo, but, hopefully they stayed with teammates and didn't drive IN to Buffalo in the first place The Thruway, I-290, and I-990 are open now.

She saved this man's life. This is what I mean when I said in another thread, people were breaking the driving ban to help their neighbors all along through the storm. It has to be that way, in a natural disaster when EMS is overwhelmed. I hope the man is OK. It sounds as though he was near death when she found him Here's another example of neighbors helping neighbors https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/getzville-neighbors-helping-during-medical-emergency-wny-buffalo-winter-storm/71-0dfdd2de-c62c-47fd-84fc-656d05e2075a

There are sprains and sprains. I'm not going to judge the degree of pain someone else is in. I do judge him for driving drunk (innocent people get killed that way) and I do judge him for what look like deliberate attempts to hurt or injure his opponents. Total punk.

Might be paywalled, if you can read it, this NYT article is pretty positive about Buffalo during the blizzard. Makes Buffalo sound like "the City of Good Neighbors" indeed. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/nyregion/buffalo-winter-storm.html

At least you waited until Monday Tuesday to "do the experiment"

Bengals were the #4 seed. So were Rams. Last year AFC champ was between #4 and #2 seed, NFC champ was between #6 and #4 seed Superbowl, two #4 seeds faced off 2020 AFC #2 and #1 seed, NFC #5 seed and #1 seed, Superbowl, #1 seed and #5 seed (won) 2019 AFC #6 seed and #2 seed, NFC #1 seed and #2 seed Superbowl #2 seed (won) and #1 seed

I agree with this. It's not the head coach's job to clear the players physically. That's on the team physician, the head trainer, and (where applicable) the independent neurological consultant. If they say the guy is able to play, the coach's decision is only "is he the best player we have at that position?" In cases where the player doesn't stagger or show balance issues on the way to the huddle and doesn't come out of the game, how would the HC even know there's an issue? In any event, it's not unheard of for concussion symptoms to develop 1-2 days after the injury, so it may be legit that he didn't have symptoms at the time (and it looked like an ordinary hard tackle to me) and developed them after the game or today.

Correct

Wore it post-game to his Thursday Night Football victory interview ..... by Fitz

That is so classic. Grabs the facemask of one LB, uses it to swing him into the path of an onrushing DB taking them both out like bowling pins, then turns and stiffarms Aaron Donald before throwing the ball away. Announcer: "That is a Strong Man"

That's where I think the "generational storm" bit plays into it - not just in government planning and readiness, but in how people react to the weather reports and behave. There are published stories now memorializing two of the people who died on the street, and both walked out into the storm for food on Saturday. Weather reports are saying, this is very dangerous weather, zero visibility, whiteouts, 60 mph winds whipping snow into your face, and they're like "I'll go get milk". People in North Dakota and Minnesota which see blizzards more regularly understand that a weather report like that is Mother Nature saying "You....You....and You....Stay the ***** Inside". And that wearing your car as a winter coat, only works while the engine is running and the fuel holds out. IOW, I think you're right that people are "just another snow storm" and "I'll stop at Target on my way home for 3 last Christmas gifts and some extra eggnog for Christmas dinner" Prove it. Because there is nothing saying they (meaning 911) "stopped answering calls during the storm" anywhere I can find. They stopped RESPONDING to calls, because they (meaning the first responders) physically couldn't.

OK, we largely agree although, the location is not entirely the same - the airport in question was Rochester, and most of the drive was through counties where the travel bans had been lifted. But yes, the team broke the travel ban to drive into Erie County to the stadium, agree. And then players drove home, again breaking travel ban, agree.

My (single parent) mom who was supporting 4 people worked 36 miles away in Batavia. She was on the road home when it hit. She made it, but it was tough, IIRC the Thruway closed and she drove Rt 5 then some back roads. Of course this was before cell phones. I remember how anxious we were when she called to tell us her work was closing so she was leaving a bit early, until she made it home. Visibility sucked and she was powering through small drifts already. She was driving some really rugged snow handling car - a Ford Maverick I believe, LOL. Mom was tough. She did have some emergency supplies with her, like a sleeping bag and nut mix and sterno and flares, sand and a shovel. But still.

Just to be clear, I'm talking about the Christmas Eve blizzard, and you're talking about the much more localized heavy snowfall in Orchard Park Nov 19th. As far as I know, EMS services were not suspended during that event, nor were there reports of people calling for help and EMS not being able to respond.

I could be wrong but I think the travel ban was put into place Friday am like 8:30 am, and a bunch of people were already at work and needed to get home. People need to pay next month's rent, so if their employer says "we expect you at work today" they go. Then there are people who lost power and decided they needed to try to get to a family member or friend who still had heat, or to a warming center. And of course there are always people in every natural disaster who figure the news media is full of it and exaggerating, and don't decide they need groceries or whatever until they actually see the windows turn white.